I was supposed to write a paper comparing these two extremely important American SF films. Mainstream they may be, but both have an odd quality of being mainstream movies that really want to be arty. I'll spare you all the details of Fritz Lang's whole deal with Ufa Studios and them competing with American film and blah blah blah. And I won't even bother trying to convince you that the Wachowskis were trying to make a set of movies that were actually about something, because everyone is so pissed off about Reloaded and Revolutions that they won't ever buy that they're quality films.
Anyway, I was supposed to write about both, but it took so fucking long to write about Metropolis that I don't have time for The Matrix now. Gahd damn...
Posted by orion at August 15, 2004 1:09 AMSo, did you end up with one really good paper on Metropolis? Is that not better then a half-assed paper on both Metropolis and Matrix? Maybe you learned somehting from the Wachowskis. If I ever had then chance I would love to read the paper on Metropolis, it is one of my top 100 favorite films.
Posted by: Tehya at August 15, 2004 10:10 AMmy basic thesis was that metropolis unwrites itself. it sets up certain ideological assumptions and manages, either deliberately or not i'm still not sure, to undo them all. it's actually really interesting now.
but, if this paper turns out well (which i think it did) i *might* be in a position to publish [fingers crossed]. i mean, it's the only thing i've written this year that's in my field.
Posted by: orion at August 15, 2004 2:45 PMIf you think the paper is good then it must be great, you being your own worst critic.
Posted by: Tehya at August 15, 2004 9:18 PM